RON CARLSON is Director of Creative Writing at Arizona State
University. His story published in this issue will appear in his next collection, Plan B,
which will be published by W. W. Norton next year. See also p. 22.

JOSEPH M. DITTA (Ph.D., U of Missouri—Columbia) is Chair of the
Department of English at Dakota Wesleyan University. His poems have appeared in Poetry,
Poetry Now, Kenyon Review, Modern Poetry Studies, Southern Humanities Review, Kansas
Quarterly, and others. He is also author of Natural and Conceptual Design: Radical
Confusion in Critical Theory (Peter Lang 1984).

CHUCK GUILFORD (Ph.D., Northern Illinois U) is Associate Professor of
English at Boise State University. His work has appeared in Poetry, College English, Boise
Magazine, Crab Creek Review, and others.

BROOKE HOPKINS (Ph.D., Harvard U) is Chair of the English Department
at the University of Utah. His articles have appeared most recently in The Kenyon Review
and The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis.

SHERWIN W. HOWARD (Ph.D., U of Wisconsin) is Professor of Theatre and
Dean of Arts and Humanities at Weber State University. He was named Utah Poet of the Year
in 1988. His recent poetry has appeared in Dialogue, Redneck Review, and Permanent Press.

MICHAEL T. MARSDEN (Ph.D., Bowling Green St. U) is Professor of
Popular Culture and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Bowling Green
State University. Co-Editor of five books, he is also Co-Editor of Journal of Popular Film
and Television and has authored more than 40 scholarly articles.

PAULINE MORTENSEN (Ph.D. in Creative Writing, U of Utah), whose story,
"Tree Planting Camp," appeared in Weber Studies Spring 1991 issue, was
inadvertently left out of the Notes on Contributors. Mortensen has been listed in Best
American Short Stories, 1987 and has won two awards for her fiction: the Utah Arts Council
Award for "best short story collection, 1987" and the Rocky Mountain Collegiate
Press Association Award. Her stories have appeared in College English, South Dakota
Review, Network, BYU Studies, Cimarron Review, and others. Her short-story collection is
Back Before the World Turned Nasty (U of Arkansas P, 1989).

SIMONE POIRIER-BURES (M.A. in Creative Writing, Hollins C) teaches
English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. Her
stories and poems have appeared in Artemis, Potato Eyes, Bitterroot, and Bits. The story
published in this issue serves as the prologue for her newly completed novel, Candyman.

JOHN E. SCHWIEBERT (Ph.D., U of Minnesota) is Assistant Professor of
English and Director of the Writing Center at Weber State University. His articles have
appeared in Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Studies in Browning, and others. He is
co-compiler (with Chris M. Anson and Michael Williamson) of Writing Across the Curriculum:
An Annotated Bibliography (forthcoming) and is completing a freshman composition textbook.

ED WEYHING (M.F.A., Vermont College) lives in Middletown, RI. His work
has appeared in Providence Journal, Cimarron Review, Writers' Forum, and The Hollins
Critic.

ROBERT ZIEGLER (Ph.D., Cornell U) is Professor of Humanities at
Montana Tech. His articles have appeared most recently in Essays in Literature, French
Review, Modern Language Studies, and Studies in Twentieth Century Literature.

On the occasion of the Columbus quincentennial, Weber Studies invites submissions —
poetry, fiction, and critical essays — with multicultural emphases on "Exploration
and Discovery" for the Fall 1992 issue. Manuscripts should reach the editor by the
end of March 1992.